Croatian Rizi-Bizi (Rice And Green Peas) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

500 g arborio rice
350 g fresh green peas
100 g butter
60 g onions
30 g fresh parsley leaves
30 g salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper

Preparation

Saute finely minced onion on butter and when transparent add green peas and parsley leaves (it will be even better if you use baby onions).
Add some water and cook until green peas are almost soft (skip this if you use canned green peas, just saute onion a bit). At the moment peas are soft; all liquid must evaporate, but be careful not to burn green peas.
Add some more butter and whole rice. Saute it until rice become greasy with butter, than add water, salt and pepper. Usual measure of the manufacturer for cooking rice is 1:3 (rice: water), so do it as they say.
Cook rice stirring occasionally until rice is done.
Put rice in casserole pot (greased with some butter) and put it in preheated oven (180\u00b0C) for 15 minutes. Serve hot.